IDEA: Shortening boot-time

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Jul 26, 2004, Jeremy Katz <katzj at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 2004-07-25 at 12:30 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
>> If you would have taken the time to fully read my first mail, then you 
>> would have known that I've concidered this case.
>> 
>> 99% if the non-corperate) desktop users don't use network 
>> authentication, or /home on NFS.

> Unfortunately, you still need networking up before starting *DM since if
> you don't, then your hostname can change and X gets verrryyy unhappy.

You don't really have to log in at that point.  If we had an `early
login' button in rhgb, that created a named pipe somewhere gdm would
look for and fed the login info to gdm, we'd already be giving the
user an impression of speeding things up.  And, heck, it wouldn't be
just an impression: being able to enter login and password before all
services are loaded can actually shave about a second off the
boot+login time, no matter how fast you type.

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